Secondary school pupils training for university preferred to receive written information, vocational students preferred to receive it orally. Conclusion Information about the changing health insurance status is available but does not reach those nearly 18 years old effectively. Cooperation and clarity on the responsibilities regarding the provision of information is recommended.Patients with a psychotic disorder have certain symptoms, movement disorders resulting from the pharmacological effects of medication. Knowing about this is important to the patients' dental treatment. A very small group will present with delusions about teeth or the benevolent or malevolent intentions of the dentist. Negative symptoms are an important characteristic of schizophrenic psychoses, meaning the absence of normal behaviour. Patients neglect personal hygiene and their lives have hardly any structure. They do not concern themselves with appointments, daily routines and social expectations. In such cases, prosthetic measures may be necessary. In addition, antipsychotic medications have adverse effects such as increased risk of caries, bruxism, oral and facial tardive dyskinesia, xerostomia, swallowing disorders and orthostatic hypotension. Suggestions for dental treatment and advice on how best to approach these patients are provided.A periapical radiopacity is frequently encountered by chance on a conventional periapical or panoramic x-ray. However, local pain and/or swelling in the area of a radiopacity is seldom seen. Here, we report on 2 cases of patients referred to the oral and maxillofacial surgeon with a painful periapical radiopacity in the lower jaw. The clinically and radiologically assumed diagnosis was a cementoblastoma, which was confirmed by histopathological examination following its surgical removal. A cementoblastoma is a rare, benign odontogenic tumor, mostly found in patients younger than 30. Treatment consists of surgical removal of the tumor, almost always together with the attached tooth. The recurrence rate after complete removal is approximately 12%. A cementoblastoma is clinically distinguished from other periapical radiopacities by local pain and sometimes swelling and radiologically by a relationship with the roots of a (pre)molar, a radiolucent rim surrounding the opacity, bone and/or root resorption and expansive growth.Preceded by an introduction that highlights the importance of acknowledging those who spoke out and led the Argentinian psychiatric field for more than a century, thirty Argentinian psychiatrists are presented and their ideas are summarized in this manuscript. These psychiatrists include Arturo Ameghino, René Arditi Rocha, Gregorio Bermann, José T. Borda, Gonzalo Bosch, Exequías Bringas Nuñez, Domingo Cabred, Raúl Camino, Lanfranco Ciampi, Juan Dalma, Francisco De Veyga, Noel Feldman, R. https://www.selleckchem.com/products/Mycophenolate-mofetil-(CellCept).html Horacio Etchegoyen, Jorge García Badaracco, Mauricio Goldenberg, José Ingenieros, Cristofredo Jakob, Alejandro Korn, Enrique Eduardo Krapf, Osvaldo Loudet, Lucio Meléndez, Braulio Moyano, Juan M. Obarrio, Elpidio R. Olivera, Carlos Rodolfo Pereyra, Enrique Pichón Rivière, José María Ramos Mejía, Telma Reca, Carolina Tobar García, Guillermo Vidal.The aim of this study was to determine the clinical, socio-demographic, and therapeutic variables associated with the length of hospitalization in a psychiatric emergency hospital in Buenos Aires City.
The present retrospective analytical study included 350 consecutively admitted patients aged 18-65, from June 2013 until December 2017 in a public psychiatric hospital in Buenos Aires City. Data collected included socio-demographic, clinical and discharge conditions.
Variables that predicted the length of hospitalization were diagnosis of psychosis, the use of lithium and anticonvulsants, unemployment, no economic autonomy, not have formed a family and have modified the living support group during the hospitalization.
The representative of social and economic vulnerability variables were associated with the utilization of psychiatric inpatient beds. Public policies are requested to interrupt the relationship between poverty and mental pathology.
The representative of social and economic vulnerability variables were associated with the utilization of psychiatric inpatient beds. Public policies are requested to interrupt the relationship between poverty and mental pathology.Pseudobulbar affect is defined by involuntary or exaggerated episodes of laughter or crying, subsequent to a specific disease. After-stroke pseudobulbar affect is reported in 11%-34% of patients. In our population is underdiagnosed. Our objective was to determine its frequency in a group of stroke patients.
Prospective observational study from June/2017 to June/2018. Two populations were evaluated chronic stroke (Group A) and acute stroke (Group B). Patients with severe psychiatric illness, cognitive impairment and/or aphasia were excluded. PLACS ("pathological laughing and crying scale") and CNS-LS ("lability scale for pseudobulbar affect") scales were performed. Pseudobulbar affect was defined with diagnostic criteria plus both positive scales.
Fifty patients were evaluated. Sixty-eight percent were men. Mean age 65±12 years. Group A 19 cases and group B 31 cases. Positive PLACS 21% group A and 29% group B. Positive CNS-LS 58% group A and 26% group B. Both positive scales in 8 patients (2 in group A and 6 in group B). Three of them had associated depression.
Pseudobulbar affect should be screened after stroke. Post-stroke depression is frequent and differential diagnose with emotional lability attributable to pseudobulbar affect must be ruled out. The administration of a single scale would not be sufficient for diagnostic guidance.
Pseudobulbar affect should be screened after stroke. Post-stroke depression is frequent and differential diagnose with emotional lability attributable to pseudobulbar affect must be ruled out. The administration of a single scale would not be sufficient for diagnostic guidance.Recent theory has proposed that a dysfunction of the opioid system modulates mood, reward and pain; seems to be unstable in people with Borderline Personality Disorder. Our purpose is to analyze the evidence on the efficacy of the use of buprenorphine, nalmefene, naloxone and naltrexone, in the treatment of dissociative symptoms, self-mutilation and suicidal behavior of these patients.
We conducted a systematic search of MEDLINE and LILACS databases, to retrieve relevant articles. Included studies were experimental and observational designs of borderline personality samples in which dissociative symptoms, self mutilation or suicidal behavior was reported as an outcome and evaluated with some impact measures.
A total of eight studies were reviewed. These provided interesting expectations about posible treatment lines in Borderline Personality Disorder using opioid antagonists. The subgroup most benefited was the one who has analgesia and highest number of diagnostic criteria.
Studies of higher methodological quality are needed, in larger population samples and using control of confounding variables that allow us to estimate a value power calculation, and thus be able to support firm conclusions.